interfere

To get involved or involve oneself, causing disturbance.

I always try not to interfere with other people’s personal affairs.

I’ve known ere now an interfering branch / Of alder catch my lifted axe behind me. / But that was in the woods, to hold my hand / From striking at another alder’s roots, / And that was, as I say, an alder branch.

Of waves, to be correlated with each other when overlapped or superposed.

Correlated waves interfere to produce interesting patterns, while uncorrelated waves overlap without interfering.

Where the radio-wave signals of the two radio stations interfere the listener hears nothing but noise.

Of a horse, to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle by using the legs.

To sexually molest, especially of a child.

The investigation found the girls had been interfered with.